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blunder ['blʌndɚ]

n. 大错, 大失策

vi. 失策, 跌跌撞撞地走, 犯错

vt. 做错

I've made an awful blunder.
我做了一件大错特错的事。
The police blundered badly by arresting the wrong man.
警方抓错了人，犯了荒唐的大错。
I made a terrible blunder in introducing her to my husband.
我把她介绍给我的丈夫是犯了一个极大的错误.

blunder

[ noun ]

an embarrassing mistake

<noun.act>

[ verb ]

commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake

<verb.social>

I blundered during the job interview

make one's way clumsily or blindly

<verb.motion>

fumble

He fumbled towards the door

He blurted out the secret
He blundered his stupid ideas

Blunder \Blun"der\, v. t.
1. To cause to blunder. [Obs.] ``To blunder an adversary.''
--Ditton.

2. To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.

He blunders and confounds all these together.
--Stillingfleet.

Blunder \Blun"der\, n.
1. Confusion; disturbance. [Obs.]

2. A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness,
stupidity, or culpable ignorance.

Syn: {Blunder}, {Error}, {Mistake}, {Bull}.

Usage: An error is a departure or deviation from that which
is right or correct; as, an error of the press; an
error of judgment. A mistake is the interchange or
taking of one thing for another, through haste,
inadvertence, etc.; as, a careless mistake. A blunder
is a mistake or error of a gross kind. It supposes a
person to flounder on in his course, from
carelessness, ignorance, or stupidity. A bull is a
verbal blunder containing a laughable incongruity of
ideas.

Blunder \Blun"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blundered}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Blundering}.] [OE. blunderen, blondren, to stir,
confuse, blunder; perh. allied to blend to mix, to confound
by mixture.]
1. To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in
writing or preparing a medical prescription. --Swift.

2. To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and
stumble.

I was never distinguished for address, and have
often even blundered in making my bow. --Goldsmith.

Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place,
And blunders on, and staggers every pace. --Dryden.

{To blunder on}.
(a) To continue blundering.
(b) To find or reach as if by an accident involving more
or less stupidity, -- applied to something desirable;
as, to blunder on a useful discovery.

Lugar said he believed the denial of the visas was "a foreign policy blunder" on Managua's part that squandered a chance to help ease relations between Nicaragua and the United States.
Even if companies buy all the right stuff, they could still blunder.
Blunder after blunder left a trail of 18 innocent dead, Protestants as well as the blue-collar Roman Catholics whose interests the IRA claims to represent.
Draining capital from an already strained banking system to support the FDIC would be an almost equivalent policy blunder.
"The regime sustains power by doling out goodies and if he withdraws from Kuwait, it's another blunder; he won't have any goodies," says Laurie Mylroie, a fellow at the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
Jackie Donnelly, a Sinn Fein spokesman, said every blunder "is very, very serious and tragic" and the IRA cancels more operations than it conducts for fear of civilian casualties.
While it sounded like a stupid blunder, and no doubt cost Mr. Ford votes, it was in fact an easy mistake.
Just when American liberalism had pulled the arms plug on the Contras and their friend Ronald Reagan, along comes Mr. Ortega in Costa Rica this weekend to "blunder" into the hands of what are often called conservatives.
He called the investigation "a total bust, a colossal blunder" and scoffed at the prosecutor's 814-page report, downplaying the length of his own filing which was nearly as thick but printed on only one side of each page.
Initially, Grand Union narrowly avoided a big blunder: It was tempted to induce consumers to try the expensive new imports by offering them at bargain-basement prices.
"It will be a historic blunder if Pakistan signs the Geneva peace agreements in their present forms," Gulbaddin Hekmatyar, chief of the Islamic Party guerrillas, told a news conference.
'I am president of all the French, including Mr Seguin.' Few leaders can speak unscripted for so long without making a blunder, let alone sweltering under spotlights in an echoing hall of the Sorbonne.
Purugganan described Noble's move as a tactical blunder, but said it did not invalidate the rebel strategy of seeking to promote a series of uprisings that would inspire civilian support for the rebels.
"The president's effort to make the trade bill a partisan issue was a serious tactical blunder."
But elsewhere, parties opposed to SWAPO hope to capitalize on what they view as a huge blunder by the guerrillas.
While attempting to fix its blunder at the research drawing boards, the company at the same time turned to the courts to hold its rivals at bay.
Mr Dehaene called last November's EC-US breakthrough on cutting farm subsidies 'a tactical blunder' in a recent interview, saying it had to be 'corrected'. EC monetary policy.
Michel Guite, an analyst at Salomon Brothers Inc., called the problems in the first quarter a "serious distribution and packaging blunder" by the company, which caused a large number of software product returns.
"Even though the PLO committed a major blunder by supporting Iraq, I don't see an alternative to them," says Philip Mattar, executive director of the nonprofit Institute for Palestine Studies.
"This is perhaps the most unpatriotic and stupid blunder the commissioner has made in his blunder-ridden tenure as head of the agency," he said.
No adult should go unless accompanied by at least one child; but, for those that do, there is some delight to be had in studying the way it works upon the tinies. The staging, directed for Parasol Theatre by Richard Gill, makes blunder upon blunder.
No adult should go unless accompanied by at least one child; but, for those that do, there is some delight to be had in studying the way it works upon the tinies. The staging, directed for Parasol Theatre by Richard Gill, makes blunder upon blunder.
Whatever Mr. Gorbachev's reasons, his harsh comments on the German question could turn out to be a blunder if they reflect a hardened Soviet stance.
One analyst, Bonnie Rivers of Salomon Brothers Inc., cites the blunder as a major reason she recently slashed her estimate for Holly Farms' profit for the year ending May 31 by 22%, to $2.25 a share from $2.90.
They support her thesis that the current Soviet presence in Afghanistan, far from being a political blunder by aging generals, is a continuation of several centuries of Russian imperialist aspirations.
"It was a blunder, putting at risk for the first time Mrs. Thatcher's claim to be the authentic voice of middle England," Peregrine Worsthorne commented in London's right-wing Sunday Telegraph.
In Senate testimony, former FDA Commissioner Charles Edwards, the panel chairman, diagnosed the overextended agency as "vulnerable to fraud and blunder" and "living on borrowed time."
With just two games remaining, she said, one blunder or brilliancy would decide the outcome.
But business is looking at Nissan's refusal (to release the logs) as a major blunder," Irwin said.
One blunder can be fatal.

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